Will this story ever die down? According to the facts the board has discerned we are intelligent enough to understand, they have only pissed away less than 1% of the Havre School Budget of over 18 million. So why are we upset? It is hardly going to hurt the school budget because they can run a small (like $150,000 maybe?) mill levy request in the May election and everything will be back to normal. Our guess is that the board has their taxing bean counters running the numbers as we speak so the board can start formulating the same old ad campaign they run every year telling us tripe like “if you have a $100,000 house this mill levy will only cost you $4.75 per month to save a teachers job, save the students program s, save the whatever blah, blah, blah, do it for the kids) If Havre residents vote yes to any mill levy request from these nit-wits this spring it will prove that we are all idiots and deserve what we get.
It’s bad enough to know we are from and living in the town of the ignorant but this current school board has made us not only infamous statewide, but now school administration type publications are watching this story as it unfolds. Be sure and check out the story from the Yellowstone County News and do a Google search for Mahon / Havre, etc and you will find that we are listed as the ink spot on the map of stupidity.
http://www.montanastrailhead.com/2010/01/29/04/56/mysteries-of-superintendent-dave-mahon/#more-1167
http://www.huntleyproject.net/yellowstonecountynews.htm
Well, you got a little right on this one 'corrector'. Kim S did do a good job with her article. As a reporter, she walked down the middle of issue telling all sides of the story.
ReplyDeleteNo arguments that this is a crappy situation, but your blather only continues to fan the flames of community 'busting'.
It's easy to try and convince people to vote against mill levies, but where's your solutions? I mean real solutions, not hip shot, crack pot, wacked out ideas from the local bar stool or dark back room.
Google define:editorialist sometime folks.
Here's what you get:
columnist: a journalist who writes editorials
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
One who write opinion pieces, especially for a newspaper
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/editorialist
Editorialists - Many magazines also feature editorials, mainly by the editor or publisher of the publication.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editorialists
These 'correctorites' are a long way from anything close to being real journalism. They are self appointed complainers who are on the fringes of our community.
Now just watch how they respond. Don't you wonder where all that anger really comes from? I do.
i wonder
ReplyDeleteI am glad the Corrector is “fanning the flames”. The whole pay off with all this silence is appalling. I haven’t heard any solutions from you either. I don’t think anyone on here claims to be a journalists but we are tax-payers that are tired of having our money wasted. You claim to be from outside of Hill County so your tax money wasn’t wasted like the locals were.
It’s time for the taxing entities to wake up and start representing us instead of their little kingdoms of power and authority. Obviously the school has ample money and doesn’t need any extra votes for money this year
Keep it up Corrector
i_wonder - this is a blog a place to vent and come up with ideas. No flames need fanning as the trib got it right the public (INCLUDING the teachers) are mad as hell about paying 'Dave' an extra year and a half when ...ummm.... he resigned. I assume if you work and resign from your job you will get and extra year and half pay. Maybe everyone should get taht perk. Obama can run on that platform in his next try.
ReplyDeletei_wonder.....i for sure do not consider my self on the fringes of this community, however I am upset that our tax dollars are being spent in such a foolish way. No matter how small the consequences to the overall budget.
ReplyDeleteIf the Super resigned, he resigned, but why do we "owe" him an additional $97k???. I have never seen a business or any other organization hand out $$ to an employee who resigned. I have also never seen a business or organization give $$ to an employee who "resigned" unless that organization/board has done something wrong to warrant the payout.
If the payout is justified, its justified and needs to be explained to the constituents of this board. If it is not justified they are going to look pretty silly when the facts do come out. And they will, they always do......
In no way am I trying to 2nd guess the members of this board. They have a job to do and sometimes, if not always it is a difficult job. However when you are dealing with taxpayer $$ there needs to be transparency or things turn hostile....
jimbo, beerogre, and idiotthumper,
ReplyDeleteYour blog entries are taken just as that and as I wrote "this is a crappy situation" and for all the reasons you talked about.
But the Havre Daily Corrector has profiled themselves as follows:
Havre Daily Corrector
Self-Appointed Editorialist on ALL Havre, MT & Hill County Issues.
It's one thing to post information or even opinions to get some talk goin on a blog, but "Self-Appointed Editorialists" is something more than that and I haven't read one word where they think anyone in government at any level has done anything right. Every business has it's share of people that shouldn't be there, but everyone without exception? We all know better than that.
In my book, anyone that only comes to the table with complaints isn't interested in anything more than complaining.
My solutions? I'm not complainin.
My comments on the school board issue are more of concerns on why the money was spent the way it was. If we the tax payers were given more facts on why things went down the way they did maybe there wouldn't be so many complaints. I think that we as tax payers have a right to be heard and if penalizing the school is the way they need to see things our way then I say do it. I have never seen a mill levy not passed in this communty and if by chance it wasn't they just tack it onto some other bill to get it through. Whatever, that all being said, there is no way I would want the responsibility of what the board just endured, re-election I think could be difficult for members that are up this year, which is too bad. But we as tax payers are just asking you to be fiscally responsible for us and not make snap decisions, not saying they did its just that we can only assume because we don't have the facts!
ReplyDeletePrivacy issues protecting the deal MY ASS! Since when don't those leak out? You the school board have a responsibility to inform the public as to what ,why, when and where and neglected to do so. Mahon is gone, obviously so now spill it and put out the firey rumors. And in this economy 1% is 1% no matter how you look at it put that into relavance of a mortgage or interest you may receive at a bank. I would want that 1% so don't act like its not a big deal it is!!!
I guess one thing came out of this, maybe Havre Public School Board is just advocating the community members to invest in private school. That way we have a say in what goes on. HUmmmmm interesting.
WOW "I WONDER"...YOUR BLATANT IGNORANCE JUST CONTINUES TO AMAZE ME...LOL...YOU OFFER NO REAL DISCUSSION IN YOUR COMMENTS....ITS LIKE LISTENING TO A "DRUNK"....
ReplyDeleteIt seems to be forgotten- by policy makers- in this case the local school board- that it is OUR money.
ReplyDeleteWe the tax payers are the owners of this country. We hire these officials, and I understand that school board people do not do it for the money, to be our fiduciaries, and properly look after our pooled efforts to educate our young people.
We the tax payers are watching this disaster unfold, and yes we want answers. That is a lot of money, and we want to know what happened and what exactly is being done to prevent this happening again in the future.
We are owed an explanation. We want an explanation, and we want it NOW.
OK NOW...ITS BEEN LONG ENOUGH FOR AN EXPLANATION & IT WOULD BE A FEEBLE ONE AT BEST ANYWAY...HERES THE WAY I SEE IT SINCE THEY HAVE ONLY LEFT US TO ASSUME WHAT HAS HAPPENED...HERES MY TAKE BECAUSE I AM LEFT TO ASSUME THE WORST CASE SCENARIO...THIS MAHON GUY HAS A FEW BAD STRIKES ON HIS RECORD....HE COMES TO THIS SHAD OR CHAD?...AND PROPOSES THAT THEY COULD EACH POCKET A LITTLE MONEY AND THE TAX-PAYER'S WOULD'NT EVEN GET A CHANCE TO HEAR IT OR DISAPPROVE OF IT ...SO MAHON SAYS ILL MAKE UP AN EXCUSE TO GO AND WE(MAHON & CHAD)CAN EACH SPLIT WHAT YOU GET APPROVED FOR ME....WHAT MAKES SENSE IS THE TRUTH!! WHAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE IS JUST MADE-UP OFF THE CUFF!!! WHICH MAKES MORE SENSE TO YOU FOLKS??
ReplyDeleteI SHOULD DO SOME RESEARCH ON THIS SHAD OR CHAD OR WHATEVER...AND IF HE STAYS OUT OF PRISON ,HE COULD BE HEADED FOR THE PRESIDENCY ONE DAY...FIT RIGHT IN TOO...
ReplyDeleteROFL...
Its been over a year since the Mahon situation was resolved. To those who say he got away with a bunch of money, I say you are wrong. His payments represent severence pay which is done every day in the business world. There is nothing wrong or illegal or immoral about it. He was and is a professional person that earned the severence pay.
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